Values

Our core values have been developed in conjunction with our staff and outline our commitment to our employees, our clients and the communities that we serve. Our values include:-

> Supplying to our clients Value for Money, which embraces quality of service and product as defined by our customers to achieve their objectives.
> Promoting and maintaining a safe and healthy working environment.
> Respect for people through employment, skills development and service delivery
> Focusing our work within the community and public realm
> Developing a robust local supply chain
> Implementing construction management to reduce waste
> Implementing continuous improvement.

People
E.A.M. Building Group is a BME owned SME committed to equality and diversity, which we believe, is fundamental to social, economic and environmental sustainability. We put our equality policies into practice every day in employment, and service delivery. We have developed a local supply chain, which include BME small businesses that employ local people.

We operate a structured recruitment process and aim to offer opportunities to individuals from groups under-represented in the construction industry workforce. It is our aim to recruit locally and to provide training opportunities through up-skilling, apprenticeships and adult trainees.

Environment
EAM is committed to doing all it can to reduce the environmental impact of its business. We are currently in the process of writing our environmental policy; however, we believe our practices such as our Travel Plan, commitment to employing a local workforce with a local supply chain keeping travel distance to a minimum, consequently reducing fuel consumption and pollution of the environment, demonstrate our commitment.

Community
Community involvement is a part of the company’s ethos, and senior staff are involved in a variety of community organisations. E.A.M works with NECTA, a Nottingham based social enterprise that provides construction training to the long term unemployed.

Edwin Maxwell is Chair of the New Art Exchange (NAE) a multicultural arts organisation currently undertaking a £6 million capital development programme within the NDC Radford & Hyson Green area. He is a past president (June 2002 – 2004) of the National Federation of Builders (NFB) Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Association and has served on the NFB Midland Regional Executive Council.

Jennifer Maxwell, Business Development Manager, is secretary to CAGE Greater Nottingham, the chair of Time Out Care Services Ltd, a home care provider providing services primarily to the African Caribbean community, she has also been a Director of the African Caribbean Development Agency (ACDA) and a Non-Executive Director of the Queen’s Medical Centre NHS Trust.

Public Sector
As a company we have taken time to think about our marketplace and over the years have considered if the public sector is the appropriate market for us; consequentially we have developed a portfolio of public sector clients.

Regular clients include universities, colleges, hospitals, local authorities and housing associations throughout the East Midlands.

Modernisation of public procurement has motivated us to review our strategy and consider if the public sector continues to be the appropriate market place for us; do our values and working practices match with the emerging public sector values which are defining the products, works and services that are being bought.

Our conclusion is that we are well suited to deliver works for the public sector within the “Value for Money” framework as we embrace many of the values and objectives that the public sector is striving to deliver.